[cfe-dev] FYI: IA-32 psABI draft version 0.1
H.J. Lu
hjl.tools at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 13:37:06 PST 2015
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:13 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> Here is the link:
>>
>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ia32-abi/nq6cvH_VVV4
>
> I sent the following reply to the ia32-abi list but haven't yet received
> it back from the list - you might want to check if it's stuck in
> moderation somewhere:
Gmail put the message in "Promotion" category :-).
> I would suggest that rather than using old terms such as "single",
> "double" and "128-bit extended" to describe floating-point formats, and
> rather than referring to "IEEE-754R", the names from IEEE 754-2008 should
> be used. That is, binary32, binary64, binary128. (When referring to
> decimal32, decimal64, decimal128 you still need to specify somewhere that
> it's BID rather than DPD. And you'll still need to refer to 80-bit
> extended since that's not an IEEE interchange format.)
>
This change should be made in x86-64 psABI first before cherry-picked
into IA-32 psABI.
--
H.J.
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